Tag: italy
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#MorningMonarchy: April 20, 2016
Life expectancy, occasional treats and the clean fifteen + this day in history w/Deepwater and our song of the day by Brass Bed on your Morning Monarchy for April 20, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: March 2, 2016
Wasted medicine, glass action lawsuit and food deserts + this day in history w/Hayes’ sElection and our song of the day by Allen Stone on your Morning Monarchy for March 2, 2016.
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#MorningMonarchy: January 18, 2016
Sanction exchange, child slaves and world passports + this day in history w/MLK Day and our song of the day by Yeasayer on your Morning Monarchy for January 18, 2016.
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The Pizza Connection: Fighting The Mafia Through Food
from npr.org: In recent years, the effort to bring the Mafia under control in Sicily has spilled over into the world of food. Today a movement of small organic agricultural cooperatives has sprung up across the island to farm land once confiscated by the Mafia and bring these goods to a global market. Libera Terra…
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Video: Robotic Limb Helps Amputee Feel Objects Again
from ap.org: Italian researchers have created a prosthetic limb that allowed an amputee to feel for the first time since a firework accident injured him ten years ago.
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The Polarizing Practice of Eating Horses
Everyone who seriously studies French or Italian food on scholarly research trips eats horsemeat.
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Emanuela Orlandi Was ‘Kidnapped For Vatican Sex Parties’
A teenage girl whose disappearance in Rome has remained a mystery for 30 years was kidnapped for sex parties by a gang involving Vatican police and foreign diplomats, the Roman Catholic Church’s leading exorcist has claimed.
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The Schmallenberg Virus: DARPA and the Fraunhofer Society?
The Schmallenberg virus is the name that has been given to the collective cases of lamb, sheep, goat and cattle still births and birth deformities that have spread at an alarming rate across a large part of Europe.
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media/memes: sinking ships, throat tones, hand jive
Video: Twilight Language: Titanic Tragedy – Costa Concordia* Adele Joins ‘Titanic’ In Her 16-week Chart Reign* Music Program Admits to Coaching 3rd Graders to Sing Occupy Song* Ringing tones of NY Philharmonic silenced by ringing cell phone* Video: L. Bernstein Conducts Mahler’s 9th Symphony* Joel J. Tyler, Judge Who Ruled ‘Deep Throat’ Obscene, Dies at…
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800-Year-Old ‘Witches Graveyard’ Discovered In Italy
These are the 800 year old remains of what archaeologists believe was a witch from the Middle Ages after seven nails were found driven through her jaw bone.
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United States Loses AAA Credit Rating From S&P, Markets Go Wild
The United States lost its top-notch AAA credit rating from Standard & Poor’s on Friday in an unprecedented reversal of fortune for the world’s largest economy.
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Obamessiah Can’t Guarantee Social Security Checks Will Go Out On Aug3
President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks.


